Corn

Wednesday, Brad & I along with our friends, Gary & Amy took our RiverPoint kids, 12 in all, to Camp! We shoe-polished up the van windows and drove 4 hours through TONS of corn fields to get to this camp in the middle of nowhere Nebraska! It took me a while but I finally got the "Huskers" thing. duh. So on the way home Brad & I were amazed at ALL of the corn! I started thinking if there are 1-2 ears of corn on each stalk, and there are 1 gazillion stalks in that field and there are 20,000 or so fields that we've seen so far. I know that there is multiplication in there somewhere, but I have no idea how to even estimate that answer and neither do you, so don't comment, just go with me here.

Know what's cool? God knows. He knows the exact number and He reminded me of that this week.

"And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." Matthew 10:30

Even as much hair as I lose every day, He's still got the current number at this very moment!

Why do I think that's cool? Because it means He knows me. He knows every detail about me. I don't know about you, but the people in my life that I know the very best down to the smallest details, are the ones that I love the most.

Then I started thinking, what will that ear of corn on that particular cornstalk become?
(as Brad's driving by it at 55 miles per hour because THAT'S the speed limit there.....sheesh, why so slow cornhusker people??)
Anyway, each ear of corn will have a purpose....corncobs, cream corn, canned corn, cornbread, Fritos, Doritos, corn oil, corndogs, popcorn, and so on like Bubba. So what is the chance that that one ear that I saw will be in my mouth someday? Only God knows that, too. He knows every detail about each one of the corns in those cornfields, so He must know and care even more abundantly about the little details of my life, the present and the future.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11